Amictus pulchellus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Bombyliidae
- Genus: Amictus
- Species: Amictus pulchellus
Visual Description
Amictus pulchellus is a species of bee fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit the characteristic robust, hairy body form typical of many Bombyliidae.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Amictus pulchellus is a bee fly species found in Europe, with records in Western and Middle Europe.[2] Its areographical distribution is classified as Holomediterranean.[2]
This species has been observed visiting the flowers of Jasione montana (Campanulaceae).[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Bombyliidae / Amictus / pulchellus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Zdravko Hubenov. Species Composition and Areographical Characteristic of the European Bee Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Bombyliidae). Acta zoologica bulgarica. 2026. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb78.1.002880.
- ↑ Amictus pulchellus. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Amictus%20pulchellus. Accessed 2026-07-14.